Ok, I have an iPod nano that I use at home, and a shuffle that I use when biking or hiking…I have 70 songs on the nano and today I was in the car long enough to hear all 70 of them - I thought. Well, that didn’t happen, I found that every 5th song or so I’d hear a repeat. I thought I wasn’t supposed to hear any repeats until the shuffle had played them all. Am I missing something? My iPod-Fu is obviously not very good, but come on now…why would there be repeats in a shuffle when that is the one thing it’s not supposed to do? Right?
I looked on iTunes and I can see some songs are ranked, and some have little checkmarks next to them…what’s that?
Google up “iPod shuffle option not random.” You’ll get pages of links, including this one that explains how the randomization works. Cliff Notes version: iPod shuffling is random, not repeatfree. Maybe that’ll be in the next gen iPod. There are hundreds, if not a thousand, tracks that my iPod won’t play on its own.
It’s repeat-free on my iPod… That thread was from 2005, but the iPod I had back then didn’t repeat either, as long as I didn’t interrupt the sequence of songs.
I’m listening to mine on shuffle right now; it says “193 of 2798”. Unless I manually choose a song or select “shuffle songs” from the main menu, it’ll go through my whole collection. I’ve done that once, when my computer crashed so I couldn’t sync it.
Phlosphr, my guess is that either you’re accidentally re-shuffling the songs (maybe when unpausing it?), or you have duplicate songs in your library.
The best solution is to add a couple thousand more songs.
